Film and video · Regional Labor and Employment Superintendency of Mato Grosso (SRTE/MT)
Ação Integrada: from rescue to decent work
A video for Mato Grosso's Ação Integrada project, which takes workers out of slavery and back into the job market with training.
- Client
- Regional Labor and Employment Superintendency of Mato Grosso (SRTE/MT)
- Year
- 2012 to 2013
- Territory
- Mato Grosso, filmed in Cuiabá and in the sugarcane fields of Poconé
- Format
- Institutional video in news-story format, with Spanish and English subtitles
The challenge
Rescuing workers from conditions analogous to slavery is only the first step. According to the video itself, more than 80% of those rescued returned to the same situation or ended up without work. The Ação Integrada (Integrated Action) project, coordinated by SRTE/MT, was created to break this cycle and needed to show its experience to public and private institutions.
The film
What we delivered
- Script developed with the Superintendency
- Video of about 6 minutes
- Spanish and English subtitles and a DVD version
What we did
We produced a video in news-story format. The film combines testimonies from rescued workers, who describe months without pay, unsanitary lodgings and no way of going home, with remarks from the project's managers and data on contemporary slavery in Brazil and in Mato Grosso.
The story follows the turnaround: after the rescue, workers go through a social assessment, receive special unemployment insurance and enroll in training courses with Senai. The video was given Spanish and English subtitles and a DVD version to circulate among partners.
“Today I'm a new man, even in the way I think about work.”
